Standing on crabs: the future of travel?

Jan 19, 2010 1:46:18 AM

Tim Moore
Lonely Planet Author

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In 2009, the travel world was rocked by swine flu and ’staycations’, but what about 2010? In an extract from Lonely Planet Magazine’s January 2010 edition, Tim Moore takes a look at possible trends.

Swimming with dolphins falls out of favour as suspicions grow that the highly developed cetaceans have learnt to patronise their aquatic human companions, with many disgruntled swimmers reporting sarcastic flipper applause and squeak-based mimicry. The new trend is to spend your holiday wet-time with marine species who know their place, either because they’re ugly and thus grateful for the attention (wading with lampreys), or in fear of their lives (standing on crabs).

So what else might be on the cards for 2010? Well, reverse-slum tours for starters. Oh, and anti-spas.

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20 January 2010 7:21PM jefbrown Report this comment
The 2009 travel is very worse because of the swine flu virus, we are hoping in the year 2010 would be a great year of travel there will be no more treat of pandemics so we can enjoy the pleasure of travel. We in the <a href="http://timesharerelief360.com/blog/">timeshare relief</a> are lots of travel plan for 2010 hope everything would be fine.